Green Lantern

Interesting one this one. It turns out the film was better than the trailer!?
I remember first seeing the trailer and thinking this is one to avoid, but overall I enjoyed it. Granted it was standard Super Hero fare but there was some reasonably good CGI. Ryan Renolds reminds me of Chris Evans (the actor that is) and has his same cocky charm and arrogance which helped to lighted the mood as it were.. Peter Starsgard (?!) was a fairly good 'bad guy' but generally the baddies could have done with being cranked up a notch..
Overall rating; ***
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Hangover II

I'd heard bad reports of this one... And they were all correct. It was rubbish. Granted there were one or two laughs, mainly from Zack Galifanakis but it was generally offensive. Should have listened to Mark Kermode.
Rating:*1/2
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X-Men:First Class

What you see before you is a Pret-A-Manger coffee, cheese and ham croissant and my ticket stub for the latest X-Men movie. In order of excellence I'd have to rate **** stars for the croissant (they're excellent and it's my SECOND today). Next is the movie. It started off really well, but unfortunately it suffered the usual drop off associated with pretty well all Super Hero movies (plus, oddly Michael Fassbender's Irish accent became more apparent !?!). But overall I enjoyed it. Not 'Dark Knight' good but at the same time not 'Spiderman 3' bad (plus better than X:3!)
The special effects were on par with most of today's blockbusters and there was a funny cameo from Hugh Jackman.
Not sure what's next in store but you could easily carry on with X-Men 1 now, they managed to dot the 'i's as it were.
Rating: *** 1/2
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